What are other examples of homographs(words w/ the same spelling but diff. pronunciation and meaning)?
bow – bend head and body forward
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wind- blowing air
read- present tense (ex. i want to read war and peace)
read- past tense (ex. last week i read to kill a mockingbird)
sin- transgression
sin- symbol, trigonometry
** (n) Joey auditioned for the band while it was seeking someone to play bass.
** (n) The store was selling an animatronic bigmouth bass that would open its mouth and sing “Take Me to the River” whenever someone passed by.
close
** (v) Cliff still has to close his eyes to be able to eat calamari.
** (a) It seemed that the story in the newspaper had hit a little too close to home.
conflict
** (n) The mother said to her belligerent son, “Violence is no way to resolve conflict!”
** (v) The two news reports seem to conflict each other.
*do
** , (v) What do you think you are doing?
** (n) To warm-up, the singer sang the scale from do.
*dove
** (n) The dove is a kind of bird.
** (v) He dove into the pool
number
** (n) What is your phone number?
** (a) My cold toes were number than hers.
present
** (a) All need to be present for a unanimous vote.
** (n)
** (v) He will present his ideas to the Board of Directors tomorrow.
read
** The new Jonathan Safran Foer book is an awful read.
** Once I had read the note I tore it into little bits and swallowed them
record
** AmE BrE (n) She played a vinyl record on her old turntable.
** BrE (v) Did he record the concert with his camcorder?
*refuse
** (v) If you refuse the background check, we cannot hire you.
** (n) Please clean up all of your refuse.
*resume
** Resume breathing or you will surely faint!
** My resume makes ample use of the font Impact
wind
** How did we wind up in Kansas?
** The wind blew from the northeast
-people who live in england
-a language
-to address someone
-place where you are staying at
Close
-near
-to close
and many more, you can go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_homographs
http://www.opundo.com/homographs.htm
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/wordlist/homogrph.html
Hope it can help XD
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